Gradually, with the help of the neighbor's kind-hearted Mrs. Anne, little Lucy gradually grew up.
She started to ask: "Dad, why is it snowing?"
Obviously, this kind of question is not an easy one for Sam, who has an IQ of only seven years old.
He could only say: "Because of the snow, the snow will just fall!"
"Dad, what is mustard made of?" the young voice continued to ask.
"It's just yellow ketchup..."
"Dad, why are men bald?"
"Sometimes, men go bald because they want to be shiny! They don't have hair on their heads, so they just have the top of their head connected to their face!"
"Dad, are all ladybugs girls? Or are there also boys? What are boys' ladybugs called?"
"Call Beetle!"
"Dad, where is the end of the sky? How can the moon come home with me?"
"Why is the sun orange?"
“Where did the rest of Daylight Saving Time go?”
"Dad, do I look like mom, or do I look like dad?"
As she grew up, little Lucy always had a lot of weird questions, and Sam always racked his brains to think of how to answer them.
On this day, Sam was sitting there with two paper cranes, one big and one small, in front of him.
Suddenly little Lucy asked: "Dad, will mommy come back?"
Regarding this question, Sam pondered and answered bitterly: "Paul McCartney had no mother since he was a child, and so did John Lennon. Anne said that sometimes God will take away those special people. This is what Anne said."
Little Lucy asked again: "Dad, did God let you do this on purpose? Or was it accidental?"
Obviously at this time, little Lucy has begun to be smarter than her father.
"What do you mean?" Sam couldn't understand.
"You are different!" said little Lucy.
"But what do you mean?" He still didn't quite understand.
"You are different from other people's dads." Little Lucy said.
This time he understood, but he didn't know what to say. He just felt very guilty and kept saying: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
Little Lucy loved her father very much and was very sensible. She quickly reached out and held his father's hand: "It's okay, Dad, don't apologize. I'm very lucky. Other people's fathers don't accompany them to the park!"
"Yeah, we're lucky, aren't we?"
At this time, the waiter brought their order over, and Sam always expressed his gratitude sincerely.
He took little Lucy and a group of people like him to buy shoes. Although he didn't know much, he had his own way of loving his daughter.
He said: "You must have a good pair of shoes, sturdy, for school!"
Everyone introduced the shoes to him one after another, but when Lucy chose them, he directly said that this was the pair.
But the shoes were too expensive, and he couldn't get a full salary because he had to hold a parent-teacher meeting.
This group of mentally retarded people like Sam, although their IQs are not as good as normal people, but their hearts are the purest. They saw that Sam didn't have enough money, so they donated generously one by one.
The employees of Insole were so touched by them that they even gave each of them a balloon.
So, Sam took Lucy with a group of people. Lucy was wearing her new shoes. Everyone held a balloon and walked on the road with smiles on their faces.
Little Lucy grew up well under the care of Mrs. Anne and Sam, and they occasionally played like two children.
He would tell little Lucy bedtime stories. Although his IQ was not enough, he could do many things that normal fathers could not do.
When he wanted to tell Lucy a story again.
"Dad, tomorrow is my first day of school. I don't want to be too sleepy!" Lucy said.
Suddenly little Lucy made another request: "Dad, everyone says Bob's Big Boy's has the best burgers. Can we go to the International Pancake House on Wednesday?"
"But going to the Pancake House on Wednesday?" said Sam.
"Just once?"
At the parent-teacher meeting at school, little Lucy said: "The life of a butterfly is divided into four stages. The first three stages, from egg to larvae to cocoon, can last..."
Suddenly she forgot the rest.
At this time, Sam comforted him: "It's very difficult to remember these because there are too many stages and it's hard to remember..."
But he underestimated little Lucy's memory and she suddenly thought: "33 days, it can last for 33 days!"
When it was the turn of little Lucy's classmate, Connor, he was also stuck.
But his father's way of handling it was completely different. He first reminded him, but when his son forgot again and again, he finally couldn't help it: "Connor, what are you doing? Do you know everything?
?”
"No, I do not know!"
"You know!"
"You wrote that, remember? I was going to talk about potatoes and beetles!"
...
The relationship between the father and son was obviously not so harmonious. Sam secretly whispered into his daughter's ear: "I think he doesn't need to embarrass the little boy!"
In fact, it can be seen from this aspect.
Although Sam's IQ is not as good as that of Connor's father, he is wholeheartedly devoted to his daughter. When his daughter forgets her words, he will not feel embarrassed, but will take the initiative to comfort her.
On the contrary, Connor's father looked like a normal person. What his son wanted to talk about made him feel childish and would embarrass him, so he changed it. In the end, his son still forgot it. He felt embarrassed. For this reason, he was put on the spot.
Embarrass your son.
Of course, he is different from ordinary people after all.
When my daughter's classmate comes to visit us, when he cracks eggs, he will mutter: "I'm sorry, Mr. Egg!"
His classmates thought he was strange.
"What's wrong with your dad? He looks like a retard!"
Little Lucy looked a little embarrassed, but said directly: "He is!"
"Are you?"
"no!"
"you sure!"
"Sure!"
"How did you know?"
"He said so!"
"Is he mentally retarded?"
"Yes, so he knows who is retarded!"
As a classmate, Lucy was still a little unhappy.
In the evening, he told his daughter Lucy a new storybook given by the teacher, but it was very difficult for him to read it.
At this time, the daughter is already smarter and more mature than Sam. She can read different, but Sam cannot.
Seeing her father struggling to read, Lucy felt very distressed. She took out the storybook she had read countless times and asked her father to read it.
At the International Pancake House, Sam was taken away by the police because of a woman who came out to sell.
But because of his reaction, the police believed that he really did not know the identity of the other party.
He was invited to school because of Lucy's incident, because Lucy was afraid of studying.
"No one doubts that you love your daughter, but the Family and Child Protection Administration has contacted us. We all believe that the data shows that your IQ is only equivalent to that of a seven-year-old child. We are worried that Lucy should be older when she is eight years old.
what to do?"
In the evening, father and daughter read a bedtime story book together again.
Lucy deliberately pretended that she couldn't pronounce "different" either!
Sam knew his daughter could read, but when he mentioned it, Lucy said she was tired.
Many people watching this scene couldn't help crying, because they knew that Lucy showed that she didn't like to study because she knew that her father's IQ was only seven years old and he couldn't read difficult words.
It's because she refuses to grow up!
"I do not believe!"
"You mean I'm lying?"
"Yes, pronounce this word quickly!"
"don't want!"
"You must miss me!"
"don't want!"
"Yes, that's the word!"
"This is a picture of them sitting on a branch! Read it quickly!"
"No!" Lucy was determined!
"If you want to read it, I am your father and I command you to read it!"
"I'm so stupid!"
"No, you're not stupid!"
"No, I'm stupid!"
"I just don't miss it!" Lucy finally said.
Sam understood, and he said: "No, I am happy when you read it, and I am happy when I hear you read it!"
He listened to the teacher at school during the day and said he didn't want his daughter to be like him.
Lucy read it anyway, and she read it very fluently!
But a little girl is always a little girl. When Sam went to school to spend Halloween with her, he acted more like a child than a child, and Connor told other students about his father. As a result, everyone
They all looked at her father with strange eyes.
At that moment, she felt ashamed.
She even lied to her classmates, saying that she was not Sam's biological daughter, but just adopted.
Lucy is going to elementary school and her birthday is coming soon. Sam wants to hold a party for her. At this party, he wants to give Lucy a gift: a Beatles record.
But the surprise never came. The party was ruined. Lucy saw the panicked Sam lying on the ground and ran away sadly.
People from the Child Protection Department came because Sam was caught trying to cheat on a girl before, and what happened at the party made them feel that Lucy could no longer live with him!
He was still ignorant, and when he was sitting in the car, he shouted to Lucy: "Birthday, today is her birthday!"
Lucy finally woke up and ran away.
But this doesn't change the outcome.
The family is facing difficulties. Lucy is about to be taken into care by others. The Child Protection Agency has stepped in and the court has come. They want to deprive Sam of custody rights. Sam has never seen this situation before and is in panic again.
He also said in court: "I wanted to have a special surprise birthday party, so I went to buy plates, yellow and pink, pink like a princess, and I also went to a toy store to buy balloons filled with
Helium!"
But his words had no effect in the cold court and in front of the judge.
Fortunately, he had a good colleague who told Sam that he had to hire his own lawyer and could not let the court appoint him because they wanted to separate him from Lucy.
At the same time, he also has a group of think tanks, which are composed of a group of people who have the same flaws as him. Together, they recommended one of the most powerful lawyers in the city to Sam, who was selected from more than 600 pages of the Yellow Pages.
They even carefully told Sam the address of the lawyer, which made Sam excited and ran away excitedly.
This awesome lawyer is a professional woman. Her signature clothing is high-end business attire, and her high-end glasses sit on the bridge of her nose. She is the ultimate strong woman. Of course, she is not short either.
The movie showed a strange blue color at this stage, even the lawyer's cup was blue, which made people feel cold.
This female lawyer seemed very busy. Time was money. She handled eight cases a day (all for a fee). Even her busy son’s phone calls had to be put on the second line. When Sam saw this scene, he couldn’t help but panic!
Especially when the other party said that Sam couldn't afford her.
He was even more panicked!
But he kept talking about Lucy.
The female lawyer is very helpless!
At this moment, Sam was full of fire. He knew that the female lawyer had a son. He said: "If your son is also taken away, will you find someone who is eloquent and knowledgeable like Rob said?"
Lawyers with four names?”
But she has no interest at all in clients like Sam who can't afford the fees.
She said perfunctorily that she could introduce Sam to other lawyers!
Sam knew that he couldn't hire this famous lawyer without money, but what should he do?
He is just a low-level person earning $8 an hour, and he simply cannot afford such high legal fees.
He thought, what should I do with money? I can no longer work as a part-time worker, I want to learn a skill, I want to learn how to mix cappuccino.
But Sam believed the female lawyer's perfunctory words. He went to the female lawyer Rita again and asked her lawyer friend who was handling cases in this area if he could help.
But Rita was just perfunctory. She said again that she couldn't find her phone number.
They lost contact.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But Sam once again believed it was true and asked Rita to call him if she got in touch.
During this period, colleagues asked Rita, who is that person?
Rita casually said that she was her own client, a client of free services, which aroused laughter from other colleagues. They did not think that Rita would do such a thing.
During this period, Sam flew many times on his way to the lawyer's office and to see Lucy. Once when he was going to see Lucy, he didn't fly well and slipped, and the cake in his hand collapsed.
But Lucy ran to Sam, didn't care at all, and smiled sweetly.
Sam told Lucy that he got his paycheck next week and was going to buy an answering machine so you could call me and leave a message.
"You can say, Hi, I'm Lucy!"
Lucy said: "We can't afford an answering machine!"
"Okay, because I'm about to get a promotion, a big promotion!"
"Are they asking you to make coffee?" Lucy asked happily.
"Aim higher, Lucy!"
At this time, Lucy said with red eyes: "I'm sorry, Dad! It's all my fault!"
"Don't say that, it's not your fault, don't say that!" Sam said quickly.
"I just want you to be my father!" She was too mature to look like a child, and she specifically turned to look at the court investigators outside the one-way mirror.
She also shouted loudly: "Did you hear that?"
"I said, I'm sorry, I said, I just want him to be my father! Write it down!"
Sam went to Rita again because she said before that she would serve pro bono, so when Sam once again said that she could not afford the legal fees, other colleagues in the law firm looked at her as if they were watching a show.
This made Rita very embarrassed.
Rita, a female lawyer, was finally moved by her colleagues' supercilious looks and her own snobbishness. She said to Sam, "Okay, I will volunteer for once and be your lawyer." Sam looked confused. The female lawyer changed another simple word, "Free!"
Sam understood this time. He was so happy that he couldn't help hugging the female lawyer Rita!
